Taking a break from writing about my past artwork to write about some current stuff. Specifically my little red sketchbook. As I’ve written before I, like most artists, have a great affection for sketchbooks and have more of them than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since I went all the way back to my student days (the mid to late 1980s) to describe how I first learned to paint now I’m going to move forward in time until May of 2010 and the last oil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again I get in the Way-Back Machine to write about my art. I dug up some old slides I took back in the late 80s of my student paintings I made way back in the spring of 1988 (excuse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I want to do some writing about painting but I’m not sure where to start. I don’t think I want to write a “How To” painting piece but “How To” does have a lot to do with painting in general.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my final piece of writing on drawing in general because that’s all I can think of for now. Well, I can actually think of one more thing, drawing from photo reference, but I don’t know how interesting that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I’m writing about a different type of drawing than I’ve written about before. It has nothing to do with drawing from life. It’s a type of drawing that I didn’t really get into until I was well in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this next part of my writing about art I want to talk about basic drawing. This is not about basic drawing lessons but about how a person perceives basic drawing. It’s a bit of an oddball subject for basic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to present some under-drawings. These are the type of drawings that I mentioned last week but I had no examples of to show. That’s because they’re almost always erased as I draw the finished drawing on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I’m continuing my writing about art by showing an example of my drawing. Here is another example of me learning to draw. It’s probably from just before the first drawing I showed you which puts it in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I want to finally start writing about art in general and my art specifically. I guess it could be my New Year’s resolution but it’s only a coincidence that I came to this conclusion so close the the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…